GURUGRAM: The district administration on Friday, November 6, 2026, reviewed preparations for a November 12 deworming campaign targeting 638,547 children and adolescents, alongside 99,184 women of reproductive age. Additional Deputy Commissioner Sonu Bhatt chaired the health task force meeting at Vikas Sadan, where officials also set out arrangements for subsequent vaccination campaigns affecting families across Gurugram district.

The deworming round is to reach government and private schools as well as anganwadi centres. Bhatt directed the education, health and women and child development departments to coordinate the arrangements. The announcement gives schools and families a district campaign date, while responsibility for organising delivery rests with the departments named in the review.

November 12 campaign and November 19 mop up

According to the official district health review release, the children's target covers the age group from one to 19 years. The figure includes children and adolescents rather than school pupils alone. The separate target for women of reproductive age is 99,184, and should not be folded into the children's figure when describing the campaign's reach.

A mop up day is scheduled for November 19. Its purpose is to reach eligible beneficiaries who miss the main round for any reason. Both dates were announced in the same review, giving departments a second opportunity to cover those left out on November 12. The release identifies albendazole as the medicine to be administered through the programme.

Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Rashmi Batra told the meeting that this is Gurugram's twentieth round of the National Deworming Programme and that the exercise is held every six months. The district instructions concern programme delivery through schools and anganwadi centres. The announcement does not provide an individual appointment timetable or a list of distribution hours for each institution.

  • Main deworming day: November 12, 2026.
  • Children and adolescents targeted: 638,547, aged one to 19.
  • Women of reproductive age targeted: 99,184.
  • Mop up day: November 19, 2026.
  • Delivery arrangements: government schools, private schools and anganwadi centres.

Polio teams to focus on children who can be missed

The task force also reviewed a separate pulse polio campaign scheduled for November 22 to 24. Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Jayprakash put its target at approximately 398,808 children aged up to five years. These are later campaign dates announced at the November 6 meeting, rather than a vaccination exercise already completed in the district.

The staffing plan includes 5,736 vaccinators and 302 supervisors, according to the release. It also provides for 155 mobile teams and 50 transit teams. These mobile and transit arrangements form part of the district's effort to reach children beyond a fixed vaccination location. The review sets out deployment plans, not the number of doses already delivered.

Bhatt specifically directed health teams to reach migrant families, construction sites, informal settlements and other high risk areas. The instruction places those locations within the campaign's outreach priorities. It matters for children whose families may move between work sites or settlements and who therefore need to be included when departments prepare their coverage arrangements.

Further vaccination dates and departmental follow through

A measles and rubella vaccination campaign is planned from November 16 to December 15. The administration asked departments to organise awareness activities in schools, anganwadi centres and the community. The education and women and child development departments were directed to work with health staff on identifying children, preparing lists and informing parents about the campaign.

The meeting also examined progress on HPV vaccination for eligible adolescent girls. Bhatt called for awareness about the programme's purpose in preventing cervical cancer. The release does not give a new HPV appointment date, a district numerical target for that programme or a school by school schedule. Those details cannot be inferred from the dates announced for the other campaigns.

Regular immunisation, maternal and child health services, and prevention of vector borne diseases were also on the task force's agenda. For dengue and chikungunya control, the municipal corporation, panchayat and education departments were asked to coordinate sanitation, fogging and public awareness work in their areas. No new district case tally was announced in this release.

Chief Medical Officer Dr Virendra Baswana attended the review with the deputy chief medical officers and other health staff. Bhatt asked officials to monitor programmes regularly and address implementation gaps promptly. For local health infrastructure background, readers can see earlier reports on work orders for 30 health centres, Chirayu contribution rules and the Sector 9A hospital staffing notice.